Mini Salmon and Asparagus Quiche

I love the versatility of mini phyllo shells. I used salmon and asparagus for these mini quiche but you can substitute with so many other ingredients. While these are great appetizer to pair with wine or beer, one of my friends likes them on brown rice with a bit of soy sauce.


Ingredients:

1 Package (15) Mini Phyllo Shells

1 Large Egg
1/8 Cup Heavy Cream
Salt
Nutmeg
Black pepper

1 Fillet of Salmon, cooked (I grilled it) and crumbled
Thin Asparagus, cut into 1" piece then boiled for about a minute
*Maybe you do not need to precook asparagus as it can be cooked during the baking process.

Need 24-cup Mini Muffin Pan

Direction:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 F.

2. In a small bowl, combine egg and cream. Season with salt, nutmeg, and pepper. Set aside.

3. Place the phyllo shells in the muffin tins. Place salmon and asparagus in each shell.

4. Spoon the egg mixture into phyllo shells.

5. Bake for 12 - 14 minutes.

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Vogue 8857 Sewing Update: So far I have finished bodice and sleeves (Did I hear 'that's it?'). Yet another exam (this time SQL) coming next month, my next update would be most likely after that.

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday season!

A Cat Who is Not a BIg Fan of Halloween



How dare you, mommy!

 

 

Just so you know, I did not make his costume. It was meant for a small dog.

 

 

Happy Halloween! 

Vogue 8857 Part 1 - Flounce

How is everyone? Here is a quick update on Vogue 8857 tunic.

Vogue 8857: Photo courtesy of Vogue Patterns

I am not making tucks for those details will most likely disappear in the busy print. So I started off with attaching flounce.

Each side has two rows of flounce. For flounce placement, be sure to mark on right side of front. (Of course, my placement line was on wrong side and this was not the first time I had done that.)

Flounce 2* was staystitched, clipped, and pinned to the front with right side together. (*Pattern Number)

 

After stitching flounce to front, you trim seam allowance, press the flounce and edgestitch close to the seam.



For flounce 3, you just have to baste at this time. Make sure you pin wrong side of flounce to right side of front.  

Though these flounces are somewhat lost in the print, they are pretty. I like how they look.

 

Well, that is all for today.

Happy sewing :)

Hello Again

Today was a good day. Not just because it was a beautiful day in Tucson, Arizona, but I suddenly wanted to sew something and actually got started.

I don't know what caused this sudden change to myself. After all it was quite an ordinary morning: My cat, Chester woke me up by accidentally kneading my bare arm around 7AM (like every morning). I fed him and saw him leaving the room immediately after having exactly one bite (again, like every morning). Then I had a coffee and thought I wanted to make something today.

So I went through my stash and, because cotton is the easiest to handle, pulled some cotton cuts out. 

What happened next annoyed me: I could not decide what to make for a ridiculously long time. I just couldn't. This made me think of the scene from the documentary film about Anna Wintour: In that film, she described her strength as "decisiveness". Well, today it became perfectly clear why I was not an editor-in-chief of Vogue. (By the way, her self-claimed weakness was "children". So is mine! Does this make me an editor-in-chief? Sadly, no.)

Anyhow, I finally started cutting pattern pieces around 2PM, did some petite alteration, then cut the fabric. Here is what I have accomplished today. I apologize for the bad focus of my photo.

Oh, did I tell you that I am making Vogue 8857?

 Photo Courtesy of Vogue Patterns

I am glad that I am sewing again. Why I had not been sewing for a while was not due to illness or any serious matter. It was just that I was busy before graduation in May, got used not to sew, and kept on not sewing even after graduation (oh yes, I graduated! I am officially a math geek now). Honestly, I don't know why, but now that I am sewing again, I like to think that my creativity had been hibernating in the past months and finally awoke (in the fall, yes).

Happy sewing, everyone.